Overview
- On Wednesday’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert disclosed he is mentioned in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails and clarified the reference is unrelated to Epstein’s crimes.
- Colbert said the mention comes from an email where a sender told Epstein’s assistant to watch Colbert’s Colbert Report segment on Super PACs, calling it funny and informative.
- He read the line, “No one explains it better than Stephen Colbert… think Jeffrey will enjoy watching,” before joking about turning it into a Times Square billboard.
- The disclosure follows The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s earlier explanation that his own appearance in the files stemmed from a 2015 exchange about a Woody Allen project involving producer Barry Josephson.
- Researchers and newsrooms are still reviewing the roughly 3–3.5 million pages released last week, with more well-known names surfacing as observers note many mentions are incidental and heavily redacted.